Message: 4
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 08:14:19 +1100
From: Carl Turney <carl@boms.com.au>
Subject: A good OCR GUI for Ubuntu Lucid
To: luv-main@luv.asn.au
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Hi All,

I'm thinking of installing OCRFeeder into my Lucid system, as soon as I
get off work tonight, and can figure out how to add it's repository
through Synaptic.

Any comments on personal experiences with this and other OCR programs?

Cheers,

Carl Turney
Bayswater

Hi Carl,

If you're looking for desktop OCR I've used gscan2pdf with some pretty good results, though I am using a much more recent distro.

gscan2pdf a PDF scanning & manipulation package that uses either gocr or tessaract (among others) for its backend OCR.

Results with a good quality PDF and using tessaract for OCR are very good, though the placement of the text layer within the image can be a little off and not quite at the quality of some proprietary software such as Adobe's Acrobat.

The proprietary PDF Studio is also available on linux (through Ubuntu's software centre on recent distros) and looks like a pretty good all round PDF package. In the testing I did though, the OCR wasn't any better than that provided by tessaract in gscan2pdf.

Cheers
Tim